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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Abbas Kiarostami

It’s very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.
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Camera Digital Intimate Moments Light
I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I’m not the only one.
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Asking Behave Director Guilty More Perhaps Thinking
I’m still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn’t have this feeling with the RED one.
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Camera Digital Feelings General Grateful Red
This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark.
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Dark Element Light Painting Pointed Referred Use
The one-word cinema wasn’t possible for me anymore. I’d hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I’d turn back.
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Cinema Dead End Possible Turn Wall Word
I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
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Anxiety English Familiar Man Men Responsibility
If we’re not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas – I have no problem with 35mm.
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Advantage Digital Drama Especially Shooting Video
I believe there’s only good cinema and bad cinema.
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Bad Believe Cinema Good Only
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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Ask Businessman Iran Politician Quickly
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit.
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Another Bear Country Fruit Ground Place Rooted Thinking Transfer Tree
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.
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Ambition Bad Copy Film Life Nothing Shape Thinking
My car’s my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We’re in the most comfortable seats because we’re not facing each other, but sitting side by side.
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Best Car Friend Home Intimate Location Sense View
I wasn’t searching for a common denominator – I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
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Challenges Common Other Cultures
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Human Being Humanity Movie
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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City Village Film Prefer Society Town True
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.
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Common Culture Film Limit Universal Voice

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